“Besides the very outdated research on sexuality (Masters and Johnson’s stages of sexual excitement aren’t used by sex researchers these days and I hope Gill will checkout Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski!) I thought the information was very accurate and well researched. I didn’t quit drinking because I thought I had a problem - I quit because someone said I had a problem and I wanted to prove them wrong. This podcast has helped me come to terms with the fact that alcohol was hurting me, and has even helped me explain it to people in my life who didn’t think I needed to quit drinking. The episode on moderation was extremely helpful because as someone who could always keep within my self imposed limits on a daily basis, I didn’t realize that the way I had to obsess about those limits to keep to them was in itself a problem. Gill helped me identify that this obsession with being able to drink “the right amount” defeated the whole point of drinking - to relax. I’m still grappling with the idea that my brain might just be different, and that I may never be able to enjoy alcohol without it triggering my anxiety or without obsessing over how much I can drink that night, but Gill is certainly helping me with that.
I hope she’ll do an episode on Naltrexone at some point. Until then, I’ll keep playing catch up listening to back episodes!”
Margitron via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/11/21